- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Associated with Lady Hippisley, Charles Hatchett, John Hippisley Horner, Mells laboratory. Presented by the Frome Literary and Scientific Institution
- Primary inscriptions
- Unsigned and undated
- Physical material
- Wood
- Dimensions
- Height: 380mm Width: 133mm Depth: 127mm Weight: 4381g
- Inventory No
- 40583
- Accession Number
- 1939-3
Description
A wooden pneumatic trough used for collecting gases over mercury. Probably used by Lady Hippisley and afterwards by John Hippesley Horner of Mells who effectively discovered the element niobium (columbium).
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